Cool Kids

Kix | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 25, 1990)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: East/West Records
• ASIN: B000002IGA
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #27,223 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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Media Type: CD
Artist: KIX
Title: COOL KIDS
Street Release Date: 03/07/1989
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Genre: HEAVY METAL

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars WAY COOL KIDS, February 12, 2003

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Tim Brough "author and music buff" (Springfield, PA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cool Kids (Audio CD)

This was Kix's pop move.

Just because I said POP move, don't run away. "Cool Kids" was the kind of pop HARD rock that was all over the air waves during the 80's hair band craze. It's a shame that the first half of this disc didn't get the obvious radio play it so richly deserved. Kix had that snappy hook delivery down better than many of their platinum peers. Granted, the title song and accompanying video got some MTV play, and the Atlantic seaboard played the single "Body Talk" half to death. The wave didn't spread, though, and Kix was left on the road to capture more converts.

"Cool Kids" is divided into two distinct halves. There is the the radio ready first half, as exemplified by "Body Talk" and "Loco-Emotion." The keyboards sound forced and the duck quack guitars on "Body Talk" really don't belong there. That doesn't distract that these are still crackerjack rock tunes. They're only teasers to lead us to the heavy half of the album. You could tell you're in for something rougher when Steve Whiteman's screaming intro to "Mighty Mouth" gives way to some fiery guitar. The groove continues with "Let Your Monkeys Out." This "Stranded In The Jungle" styled selection was a live favorite during Kix concerts, but even more of a show grabber was the band's first ballad, "For Shame." Tender and lacking in pretension, this was a stripped down acoustic pleasure before going "un-plugged" was cool. One of these days, this track will be discovered by some movie producer who needs an 80's love ballad for a period piece, and it will become the radio hit it has always deserved to be. And then you get the album's closer, "Restless Blood." Kix's hard rocking bar band roots come through loud and clear here. It's the kind of pounding guitar track that closes an album and leaves you thirsty for more!

"Cool Kids" didn't bring Kix to the mainstream, but it wasn't for a lack of material. If the production on the first half of the record wasn't so gimmickry, this would have been a five star album in the same league as the debut.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars The "Kids" are alright..., February 10, 2000

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The Space Lord (Saskatoon, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cool Kids (Audio CD)

Not a bad album, but not a very spectacular one either. Keyboards drown out a substantial amount of guitar on tracks like "Body Talk" and "Loco-Emotion", but other songs such as the title track are worthy of a few more spins. They made the right choice in throwing out the Casio after this album before people started to confuse them with the Thompson Twins...

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars KIX "Cool Kids"-- A Guilty Pleasure of Post-Punk Pop, May 12, 2001

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Cave Eyes "Cave Eyes" - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Cool Kids (Audio CD)

I like this album, but I'm not sure if it's because the songs are so good, or if it's because it reminds me of being a teenager (for that's when I first heard it, lo those many years ago). The songs are kind of limp-wristed and sissified. Not exactly "manly" music. In fact, it sounds like it was recorded by a bunch of 11-year-olds boys in a basement somewhere in Idaho. But dammit, these songs are catchy as hell--just not something I would blast from my car while cruising for chicks.